356 A. EH. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 768 
blue and orange like those of the sides; legs with white spots ; 
caudal appendage slender, bluish with brown spots. A variety with 
brown ground-color also occurs. Pupa dark chocolate-brown. 
This species is widely distributed from Maryland to the Gulf of 
Mexico, West Indies, and South America. Rare in Connecticut. 
J. M. Jones, 1876, records it as common in Bermuda, the larva 
being known as “Tobacco Musk.” Most authors do not give the 
tobacco as one of its food-plants. It feeds on various other plants. 
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Figure 129.—Pepper Sphinx; a, larva; b, pupa; % natural size; phot. from 
colored drawing by A. H. V. Figure 129a.—Larva of Isabella Moth, nat. 
size; from Webster’s International Dictionary. 
Geddes also recorded it in 1894, so that it is doubtless fully natural- 
ized. He states that the larva feeds on button-weed (Spermacoce 
tenuior). It has been found at New Haven, Conn., feeding on red- 
pepper plants, by A. H. Verrill, to whom I am indebted for colored 
drawings of the larva and pupa (fig. 129). It is possible, however, 
that Jones (who was not an entomologist) confounded the larva of 
this species with that of the common Tobacco-worm (Protoparce, or 
Macrosila, Carolina), though the latter has not been recorded. 
It was taken by me in March, 1901. Fresh specimens were sent 
in October by Miss Hayward and lL. Mowbray. 
Silvery Sphinx. (Sphinx argentata= Chlenogramma jasminarum 
Bdy.) This rare species was recorded by Jones, 1876. 
Isabella Moth; Wooly-bear. (Pyrrharctia isabella.) Figure 129a. 
A living adult larva of this common, American moth was sent in 
November by Mr. Mowbray. 
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